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This is one of the documents that I had scanned by Ancestry.co.uk at Who Do You Think You Are? Live last weekend. To call it a document seems a bit grand for this scrap of paper. It is remarkable that so much has survived at all, admittedly it is the only part of the original bible that appears to have survived.

It is the back of this scrap of paper that is the interesting part and the reason why it has (only just) survived and why it has ended up in my hands.

There is not a lot of information, but the entry “Annie born September 22nd 1916″ refers to my grandmother Annie HEMSLEY, so I thought that this might be from a HEMSLEY bible, but looking at some of the names it seems that it was actually a DRIVER bible. The last entry “Grandfather Died October 19th 1920″ refers to Thomas DRIVER, the grandfather of Minnie DRIVER, who was my great-grandmother and who was presumably the writer of this information.

The most interesting entries are those for Asher and Kate (brother and sister of Minnie) and the dates that they went (separately) to Canada. Asher went first and Kate twelve years later, I don’t know if either were married by the time they went or whether Kate was going to live with her brother. It looks like there is going to be plenty of work to do with those two.

I am not quite sure what I am going to do with the original now, it really needs proper conservation, but that is probably going to cost too much. For now it is stored in an acid-free pocket awaiting a decision.

Whilst I am deciding what to do with it my next step is going to be to transcribe the data and see if I can tie-up all the names on the page with the names in my database, and see if I need to add any of the dates to my family tree.